posted 03. July 200310:28
There has to be some of you out there with some favorite foreign films from the 80's. If so, post them up. I'll post mine when I have more time.
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posted 03. July 200310:40
How do you define foreign? I live in the UK so technically most classic 80s films are foreign to me as they were made in America.
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posted 03. July 200311:11
Very careless of me to forget to point out I'm in the U.S. So when I said foreign, I meant all other continents.
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posted 03. July 200314:46
80's films from outside the U.S. that I liked (and this is just a partial list):

"Cinema Paradiso" (from Italy), originally released in 1989, but didn't arrive to the U.S. until early 1990. Winner of the "Best Foreign Film" Academy Award the following year. A great movie for movie buffs!

"Das Boot" (1982), from West Germany. Great submarine drama. The director (Wolfgang Peterson) now makes films in the U.S., such as "The Perfect Storm" and "In The Line Of Fire". The film was re-released with a "director's cut" longer version several years ago.

"Ran" (1985), from Japan. A samurai version of Shakespeare's play King Lear.

"El Norte" (1983), from Mexico.

"My Left Foot" (1989), from Ireland. Outstanding and inspirational movie based on a real story.

"Gregory's Girl", from Scotland.

"Three Men and a Cradle" (1985), from France. This is the original of the American remake "Three Men and a Baby".

"Spetters" (1981), a Dutch film from The Netherlands. It's about three young men who are amateur dirt-bike racers, who all want a better life but fall for the same woman. In some ways, this movie is like a dirt-bike variation of "Saturday Night Fever". But the sexuality of this film makes this sometimes a bit hard to take. It was directed by Paul Verhoeven, who later moved to the U.S. in the mid-80's to make "Robocop", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", and others.

posted 08. July 200301:32
ChildOfThe80s included the Japanese movie, "A Taxing Woman", and I agree, it's a very good movie. I should've mentioned it, but I saw it on TV during the early 90's instead of in a theater back in the late 80's! Maybe that's why I forgot!

Also, I got one more to add my previous list:

"The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1980) from South Africa. It was finally released in the U.S. in 1984. One of the hugely successful movies of its time, but also controversial as well.

I am reminded to include this one on this thread, because I just read that the star of this film, a Kalahari tribal bushman named N!xau passed away yesterday.

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